Analyzing the joys and funny bits of parenting and the domestic life
I’m still on the painfully slow road to recovery. Never in my life have I been so sick. And I hope to never be this way again. Fingers crossed, knock on wood, do a dance to the moon goddess under the stars. I honestly would not have managed without my mom staying with me this [...]
Who says beach weather has to include sunshine and warmth? Not this kid. Give him some rubber boots and a warm hat and we’re good to head to the ocean. I can’t blame him. I love the sea myself.
Did anyone ever tell you that the holidays are a time of chaos and parties and pageants and visits and concerts and the Last-Day-of-Every-Activity-Ever-Before-Christmas-Break-So-We-Must-Attend-And-DO-Something-Special? No? Well, it’s true. So many last days to attend to, and most of them accompanied by juice boxes and rice krispie treats for twenty. I feel as though I’ve spent [...]
This past weekend, the whole lot of us packed up and flew to Calgary, Alberta for the weekend. The reason for the adults to go was so that we could attend my husband’s company Christmas party. The reason that the kids went is that it occurred to us, that we probably couldn’t leave them home [...]
The Giant Monster Birthday that we had planned for my son’s fifth birthday finally happened a couple weekends ago. Did we survive the party surrounded by sixteen hopped-up kids? Of course we did, but I had to resort to creating a comic to tell you about it. What’s with the comic? I had so much [...]
